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59/92920. _______ In classroom situations, Iprefer lectures to sem<strong>in</strong>ars.<strong>The</strong> more <strong>of</strong>ten you answered “true,”the more <strong>in</strong>troverted you probably are.If you found yourself with a roughlyequal number <strong>of</strong> “true” and “false” answers,then you may be an ambivert—yes,there really is such a word.But even if you answered everys<strong>in</strong>gle question as an <strong>in</strong>trovert or extrovert,that doesn’t mean that your behavioris predictable across all circumstances.We can’t say that every <strong>in</strong>trovertis a bookworm or every extrovertwears lampshades at parties any morethan we can say that every woman is anatural consensus-builder and everyman loves contact sports. As Jung felicitouslyput it, “<strong>The</strong>re is no such th<strong>in</strong>gas a pure extrovert or a pure <strong>in</strong>trovert.

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